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Thoughts and questions related to the essay “Edna’s List”
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Thoughts and questions related to the essay “Edna’s List”
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For a film about world travel, nothing beats the original Around the World in 80 Days, written and directed by Michael Todd in 1956. A ...
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Daniel Mendelsholm's "The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million," is particularly wonderful on the subject of personal relics. It traces a quest the author ...
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Why is the number seven magical?
There are many theories for this, among which, that seven (like three, another sacred number) is a prime number, indivisible; that our daily lives are ...
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More on the pilgrimage to San Juan de Compostela
The pilgrimage tour continues today. Each year, more than two hundred thousand follow the ancient route on foot from ...
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How two artists 200 years apart rediscovered the lost Wonders
By the end of the Roman Era, all the Wonders except the pyramids had disappeared and only the idea of a List of Seven Wonders ...
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Was the first list written to encourage travel or just put to this use?
According to Wikipedia, the Seven Wonders list was “based on guide-books popular among Hellenic sight-seers.” That is, that the list was essentially a marketing scheme. ...